Marek Steinbaum
Marek Steinbaum was born on May 26, 1937.
He was from Radom, Poland, like the children Marek, Roman, Eleonora, and Mania.
Marek was six when he was murdered at Bullenhuser Damm in Hamburg.
Unfortunately, there is no known private photograph of Marek Steinbaum.
The only photographs we have of him are those taken by the SS during the 'medical' experiments.
We have deliberately chosen not to reproduce them.
The Steinbaum family owned a small leather factory in Radom, Poland.
From the Radom ghetto, the family was sent first to the labour camp in Pionki near Radom and then, probably at the beginning of October 1944, deported to Auschwitz concentration camp. Upon arrival in Auschwitz, they were separated, and Marek was sent to the children’s barracks.
Marek’s father Rachmil Steinbaum was sent from Auschwitz to the concentration camps in Buchenwald and Gross-Rosen and then to a satellite camp of Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp near Stuttgart.
Marek’s mother, Mania, was deported to the Georgenthal satellite camp of Gross-Rosen concentration camp in November 1944.
Marek James’s mother, Zela James, and Rucza Witońska, the mother of Eleonora und Roman Witoński, were imprisoned there too.
After World War II, Marek’s parents lived in Memmingen, Bavaria, for a few years. Their daughter Lola was born in 1947, and they emigrated to the United States in 1949.
Lola learned of Marek's fate in 1993. On April 20, 1999, she took part in the memorial service for the children of Bullenhuser Damm in Hamburg.
The street Marek-Steinbaum-Weg in Hamburg-Burgwedel is named after Marek.